A CT scan provides valuable information about your aorta, such as the location and size of an aneurysm or dissection. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) is ...

Although your aorta is a tough, durable workhorse, sometimes its walls can weaken and bulge in what is called an aortic aneurysm ... after 6 months with a CT scan or echocardiogram to measure ...

A thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA ... to help make your blood vessels more visible on a CT scan. Emergency surgery is vital for a ruptured aneurysm. A doctor may recommend preventive surgery ...

The patient remains well over a year later, and computed tomographic (CT) angiography 12 months ... hypertension developed an 8 cm saccular aortic arch aneurysm, in a position similar to that ...

In July 1994, he underwent repair of an aortic arch aneurysm and ... On day 21, a spiral CT scan showed complete exclusion of the aneurysm with proper perfusion of visceral vessels, no evidence ...

This one, according to a Tuesday announcement, is designed to look for signs of an abdominal aortic aneurysm ... to look for signs of aneurysm in CT angiography scans of the chest—spanning ...

When an aneurysm occurs in the chest (above your diaphragm) it's called a thoracic aortic aneurysm. Thoracic aortic aneurysms ... of a TAA comes as a result of an imaging study, such as a CT scan, MRI ...